Musescore searching for "Avid HD Driver (x64).msi" and won't open
I have tried reinstalling various times, removing all traces I could of any AVID products and drivers I had, tried the portable version of the app.
When it starts, it starts to install the "Avid HD Driver (x64)" and then can't find the package, prompts me to locate it, so I press cancel. Then it goes to a small windows installer screen saying "preparing installation", where it freezes and I can't even cancel it. So I have to close the process via the task manager.
I am at a bit of a loss as I don't understand why musescore requires any AVID drivers, or why it seeks to install it when its starting up.
I am on a x64 system, windows 10.
Ian
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In reply to Up! by iansedano
Tried running the portable version from RUN using the "-S" to run without a synthesizer and it works...although it would be nice to have the synth
In reply to Tried running the portable by iansedano
Which portable version? 2.0.3? And non-portable? 2.1?
Tried the (unsupported) 2.0.3 64bit version?
Ok so I have seemed to fix it!
https://musescore.org/en/node/93481#comment-581721
User ABL said
"
I think you can try to change the portaudio dll shipped with MuseScore with a more recent one; maybe some possible incompatibilities were solved.
You can donwload one from here (case A):
https://github.com/spatialaudio/portaudio-binaries
or here (case B):
https://github.com/adfernandes/precompiled-portaudio-windows/blob/master...
Instruction for case A:
- Click libportaudio32bit.dll (or "libportaudio64bit.dll" if using the 64bit unofficial MuseScore version);
- Click "download" button;
- Rename the dll to "portaudio.dll";
- See below for instruction common to both cases.
Instruction for case B:
- Download the zip file;
- Find file portaudio-r1891-build\lib\Win32\ReleaseMinDependency\portaudio_x86.dll (the 64bit unofficial MuseScore version already uses the 64bit dll from this link)
- Copy the dll and rename it to "portaudio.dll";
- See below for instruction common to both cases.
Common instructions:
- Open MuseScore bin folder, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\MuseScore 2\bin
- Rename portaudio.dll to portaudio.dll.old (or cut and copy it into another location, to have a backup copy);
- Paste the new portaudio.dll from case A or case B in this folder.
Then you can try to launch MuseScore (possibly with -F for a reset to default settings).
Hope this helps.
Ciao,
ABL
"
Thank you ABL - if you see this!
In reply to Ok so I have seemed to fix by iansedano
Good to hear that you got it working, but my questions remain, which versions of MuseScore?
Yesterday 2.1 got released, but not yet a portable version of that.
Which version, if any, had you installed and working before?
In reply to Good to hear that you got it by Jojo-Schmitz
Portable using 2.0.1, and when installed was using 2.1.
Both had the same issue.
Previously had 2.1 working and then one day it just stopped...I didn't install any AVID products in the meantime.
Maybe it could have been a Windows 10 update but not sure.
In reply to Portable using 2.0.1, and by iansedano
How can you have had 2.1 installed and working and one day it stopped working, if 2.1 was released just yesterday?
Anyway, I believe all 2.x versions use the same portaudio.dll (and possibly even all 1.x versions too). Which exactly was the one that solved your issue?
In reply to How can you have had 2.1 by Jojo-Schmitz
Oops, I am not sure which version I was running previously in that case. When I attempted to solve the problem I quickly did a reinstall, and didn't pay attention to which version I had previously.
I used the "CASE B" that ABL mentions in the comment I pasted above.
Maybe search for that Driver?
Try https://www.google.de/#q=Avid HD Driver (x64).msi
In reply to Maybe search for that by Jojo-Schmitz
I did, but when I tried to install it said I had another version already installed. So I tried to uninstall all traced of AVID from my computer (a nightmare), reinstalled the driver, still the same problem.